I'm buying aggressively, hopefully I'm not wrong about this being overblown. The variant can be more serious but there are viable pharmaceuticals on the market unlike the first time around....there is a lot of speculation of how bad this thing is, as history proves they'll panic and then calm down a week later.
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-11-25/how-much-do-we-know-about-the-covid-variant-first-identified-in-botswana
Many scientists have said people in the UK should not panic about the new strain as it is in the early stages of its development, meaning there is little widespread evidence of its effects.
In a series of tweets, Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, said that it “very, very much should be monitored due to that horrific spike profile”, but noted that it was too early to draw definitive conclusions.
Pfizer/BioNTech, which has produced a vaccine against Covid-19, is already studying the new variant’s ability to evade vaccines.
Experts have said vaccines can be changed to tackle new variants as they emerge.
BioNTech, the company behind the western world's most widely used Covid vaccine, said it expects more data on a worrying new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa within two weeks to help determine whether its shot would have to be reworked.
Should it be necessary, Pfizer and BioNTech would be able to tweak their shot within six weeks and ship initial batches within 100 days.